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Nigeria’s government is pushing back against U.S. efforts to send the country migrants and foreign prisoners, with Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar quoting Public Enemy to drive home his point.
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The new PBS documentary “Made in Ethiopia” explores China’s increasing investment footprint in Africa through three women whose lives are deeply affected by the largest industrial park in Ethiopia.
The UNAIDS annual report warns that Trump-era HIV funding cuts could lead to 6 million more infections and 4 million deaths by 2029 — as low-income countries struggle to fill the gap.
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Leaders from several West African nations are in Washington this week as part of a three-day mini-summit the White House described as an effort to expand “commercial opportunities.”
President Trump is hosting 5 African leaders in Washington this week — a selective summit that’s raising eyebrows over who was invited, what’s on the table, and what it signals about U.S. rivalry with China and BRICS in Africa.
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In the fertile central region, the fights between herders and farmers for land access has become violent. We go to one village where over 160 people were killed in what villagers say was an effort to drive them off their farms.
Battles between herders and farmers over access to land in Nigeria’s fertile central region have led to violent clashes and no easy answers.
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have signed what President Trump is calling a peace deal. But the text leaves lots of questions in a complicated war in a mineral rich region of Africa.
Rights activists say Tehran’s crackdown must be on agenda in any talks on future relations between Europe and Iran
Iranian human rights groups are urging MEPs and European governments to escalate the issue of Tehran’s mistreatment of political prisoners, arguing that the crackdown on internal dissent must be on the agenda in any talks about future relations between Europe and Iran.
The Iranian foreign ministry appears to be in no rush to stage further talks with the west without clear US assurances that it will not be attacked again.
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US president says he will send Ukraine Patriot anti-aircraft batteries and interceptor missiles paid for by EU allies
Trump does deal with Nato allies to arm Ukraine and warns Russia of severe sanctions
Politicians in Kyiv have welcomed Donald Trump’s announcement that billions of dollars worth of US military equipment will be sent to Ukraine, while officials in Moscow dismissed his threat of sanctions against Russia as hot air.
In a meeting with the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, at the White House, Trump said the US would send Patriot anti-aircraft batteries and interceptor missiles, paid for by European allies.
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